Collected Meditations
Showing 43 quotesIf you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.— Anais Nin
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Art
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.— Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.— Anais Nin
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Strength
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.— Anais Nin
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Dreams
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.— Anais Nin
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Dreams
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.— Anais Nin
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Death
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.— Anais Nin
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.— Anais Nin
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.— Anais Nin
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Fear
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.— Anais Nin
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.— Anais Nin
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Imagination